Crafter's Corner

I'm just down the road from Yandles

 

Not in the same league as all you clever wood carvers , but a few cards I made, first one for an aunt who's just celebrated her 100th birthday!!!!!

And a couple of wedding ones made for friends of our daughters, as you can see I love my cuttlebug butterfly die cutter .

 

Beautifully crafted cards, simbad My most favourite would be your Aunt's 100th - please pass on my congratulations to her

 

Fortunately we're not else MrH would have spent the family fortune on tools by now (it's a very small family fortune).

On the positive side, we're just down the road (then up the hill, then along a bit, then a bit more...) from Westonbirt where we'll be going to the tree festival at the end of the month. http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/infd-8fpnpt

 

I worked on a redundant Church near Westonbirt, Oldbury on the Hill

 

Thankyou "M" we don't see a lot of her as she lives in London, hubby was working so couldn't make the party but think the cake was pretty good, her sons married to Jane Ashers sister!!!, she was so excited about her card from the Queen then when it arrived she said "Elizabeth? I don't know anyone called Elizabeth" at 100 her memories not what it was .

 

crochet can be used in a multitude of combination and colours. Here a few examples taken from a crochet site:

 

Oh I love to crochet Java&Me used to do loads when the kids were small as they got older they went off handmade things, nearly fainted when youngest asked me to make her a top for summer this year then had orders in from all her friends!!!!, and now their friends are starting to have children so I've been doing a bit again here's a dress and pants I've just finished

 

I don't think crocheted/knitted stuff is just for infants. My missus has a couple of tops that her granny made. She's had them for years and saves them for best because she really likes them. She also has a crocheted full length dress that she bought on holiday one year. She loves that too, even though she doesn't quite fit into it any more

 

Any other cross stitchers on here then?, I've just started doing a bit again not done any for years, although now I have to have a magnifying thingy you hang round you neck to see the stitches .
A few I've done over the years.
This took around 18 months to complete

This ones hung in the dining room

These two were done for our daughters rooms when they were little

And 2 that I must get round to framing, think this one would look good on the top of a jewelry box ?

 

And this is the one that I'm doing again, my brothers always liked it so its going to be a belated wedding present , this ones done in blackwork, think its my favourite to.

 

Wow Simbad,
they are all so beautiful. I know that cross stitch requires endless patience and discipline to keep the work consistent. You have all of that,
Jenny

 

They are beautiful Simbad. Do you work from patterns or are they your own design? I've let all my hobbies lapse over the last few years, of which cross stitch was one. I also tend to give all mine away, so I have nothing to show you. The only item I have kept at the moment is a tapestry. Perhaps I should think about starting again.

 

Thankyou Sheal they're all from patterns do have a disc for the computer to design my own from photographs etc but haven't got get the nack of it yet
Oooo would love to see a picture of your tapestry I'd love to have a go at one, I bought a book quite a while ago with lots of William Morris designs in but the most I've done from it is a cross stitch cushion another thats waiting to be made up, picture later.

 

Simbad, I'm surprised you've not had a go at tapestry, obviously they make up quicker than cross stitch being in half stitch and the yarns are thicker of course.

I tried designing my own patterns years ago on computer with the aid of a disc, but got frustrated with it so gave up. I have another tapestry stored in my loft that took me three years to complete on and off, but I won't be climbing up there for that. I'll try and get a picture of my other one but it's framed and behind glass so I don't know how well it will come out.

My hobbies get pushed aside for a few years when I get bored with them and then I retrieve them again. I can sew and knit and also make bobbin lace but have never managed to get my head round crochet. I must have a mental block, I just don't seem to be able to grasp how to work it.